New Jersey couple disappear after driving into Pine Barrens
By Conor Skelding and Dean Balsamini
November 27, 2021 5:06pm Updated
Gary and Lorraine Parker.
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A New Jersey couple mysteriously vanished after venturing into the Pine Barrens.
Gary Parker, 67, and his wife Lorraine, 60, of Warren Grove, N.J., drove into the protected wilderness reserve that covers more than a million acres — but didn’t return, according to reports.
Their ATV was later found by their wooded home with a shotgun still strapped to it.
The couple’s chilling disappearance has prompted large-scale searches and desperate pleas from family.
The Parkers were last seen Nov. 17, but a neighbor told cops she spoke with Lorraine sometime last weekend, according to the Asbury Park Press.
An official search began Tuesday. Their daughter, Lindsay Parker, posted that her parents were missing at 12:41 a.m. that morning. She wrote on Facebook later that day that her parents’ ATV was found near their home.
“My parents quad has been found along with my father’s shotgun which was strapped to it. Still no sign of either of my parents,” she wrote. “Their quad was found stuck in a field not far from their home that my dad has used for years to bait deer. Trail cam footage has nothing after footage captured last week.”
Police haven’t said when the couple went missing, according to Patch.com. Capt. James Vaughn, of the Stafford police, said he didn’t believe the couple went hunting, noting that in the rural community “many people […] have shotguns readily available,” according to the Sandpaper.
Vaughn also said that even if the couple was out in the elements for a few nights, he was “hopeful” they could survive because, “[T]hey are both avid outdoors people,” he told the outlet.
When the two-day manhunt — which included more than 100 searchers, police dogs, ATVs, drones, and air support — failed to find the couple, Stafford police on Wednesday turned the search over to its detectives and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
“Their quad was found stuck in a field not far from their home..."
That's curious.
I'd look into their kids finances.
Or, their will!
Good one deflave. I saw that show. What is weird, last we saw the guy they were supposed to murder was running off into the pine barrens with a couple of bullets in him. we never saw what happened to him.
The mysterious pine barrens.
Good one deflave. I saw that show. What is weird, last we saw the guy they were supposed to murder was running off into the pine barrens with a couple of bullets in him. we never saw what happened to him.
The mysterious pine barrens.
Great episode.
The Pine Barrens is a vast area, and hides it's many secrets well. I've spent a lifetime hiking, canoeing, hunting and fishing there, and because of the sameness of the terrain and lack of landmarks, it would be easy to get lost, or conceal evidence of a crime.
And then again, there is the Jersey Devil...
You beat me to it.
The Pine Barrens is a vast area, and hides it's many secrets well. I've spent a lifetime hiking, canoeing, hunting and fishing there, and because of the sameness of the terrain and lack of landmarks, it would be easy to get lost, or conceal evidence of a crime.
And then again, there is the Jersey Devil...
Yeah I'm sure it's a real mother fugker.
LOL
Get real.
Very weird to say the least. Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
They live/lived in the sticks.
How big, acreage wise is the Pine Barrens roughly? I went to trade school with a guy from NJ who was always talking about it like it’s some uncharted wilderness. My map shows the whole damn state of NJ being slightly larger than the county I live in, which sorta scratches the vast wilderness theory unless there’s some hellacious terrain I didn’t notice last time I passed by.
I hunt quail in the Pine Barrens, I would not want to get lost in a Pine Barren swamp!
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
Why'd you have to bring Bristoe into this!?
How big, acreage wise is the Pine Barrens roughly? I went to trade school with a guy from NJ who was always talking about it like it’s some uncharted wilderness. My map shows the whole damn state of NJ being slightly larger than the county I live in, which sorta scratches the vast wilderness theory unless there’s some hellacious terrain I didn’t notice last time I passed by.
It said 1 million acres. Which sounds huge, but is roughly the same as 40 miles by 40 miles (1600 sq miles). It's large.. but if you've been out west, it's not that impressive. Could definitely get lost in 1600 square miles if you get turned around on an overcast day and head in deeper.
How big, acreage wise is the Pine Barrens roughly? I went to trade school with a guy from NJ who was always talking about it like it’s some uncharted wilderness. My map shows the whole damn state of NJ being slightly larger than the county I live in, which sorta scratches the vast wilderness theory unless there’s some hellacious terrain I didn’t notice last time I passed by.
It said 1 million acres. Which sounds huge, but is roughly the same as 40 miles by 40 miles (1600 sq miles). It's large.. but if you've been out west, it's not that impressive. Could definitely get lost in 1600 square miles if you get turned around on an overcast day and head in deeper.
I've never hunted true flatland. But I bet it would bve easy to get twisted up.
Twice if been completely lost.
Bo th times it involved a dome shaped ridge/mountaintop. I didn't realize
I wasn't going straight, and went around the dam circle. I'd guess that very
few of the people that get hopelessly lost and die or need rescuing , use
anywhere near 1600 square miles doing it. Bet most pull it off in 160. Unless
they can see help outside that area.
We know it was wet. Not a good time to go hiking...
I believe if I were looking for them, I'd go out with an airhorn and let them find me.
Probably stumbled onto someones marijuana crop. SSS
We know it was wet. Not a good time to go hiking...
I believe if I were looking for them, I'd go out with an airhorn and let them find me.
Probably stumbled onto someones marijuana crop. SSS
Or stumbled onto a Mafia burial.
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
They live/lived in the sticks.
I'd love to see your version of "The Sticks."
LOL
How big, acreage wise is the Pine Barrens roughly? I went to trade school with a guy from NJ who was always talking about it like it’s some uncharted wilderness. My map shows the whole damn state of NJ being slightly larger than the county I live in, which sorta scratches the vast wilderness theory unless there’s some hellacious terrain I didn’t notice last time I passed by.
It said 1 million acres. Which sounds huge, but is roughly the same as 40 miles by 40 miles (1600 sq miles). It's large.. but if you've been out west, it's not that impressive. Could definitely get lost in 1600 square miles if you get turned around on an overcast day and head in deeper.
Uh-huh.
LOL
What a buncha fugking idiots.
We know it was wet. Not a good time to go hiking...
I believe if I were looking for them, I'd go out with an airhorn and let them find me.
Probably stumbled onto someones marijuana crop. SSS
Or stumbled onto a Mafia burial.
Yeah that's what happened.
the reefer crop would have been harvested byNovember
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
They live/lived in the sticks.
I'd love to see your version of "The Sticks."
LOL
You ever been there?
The interior decorator did it.
Why would they wander off where no one could find them if they were so close to their home?
Two boomers step off the pavement. Get lost. Die. Many such cases!
Why'd you have to bring Bristoe into this!?
Stickbite would get lost in a 7-Eleven.
Lol.
Tom Brown's book, The Tracker has some pretty vivid descriptions of the Pine Barrens. Not a place I would like to be without my OnX.
Tom Brown's book, The Tracker has some pretty vivid descriptions of the Pine Barrens. Not a place I would like to be without my OnX.
Friend's grandfather had about a 50 acre farm there, we hunted quail and rabbits. Flat as can be, there were not many houses .
Tom Brown's book, The Tracker has some pretty vivid descriptions of the Pine Barrens. Not a place I would like to be without my OnX.
Its pretty big area, bigger than the actual park too, including private property thats contiguous.
http://www.newjerseyscenic.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/nj_pinebarrens_map.gifIts a little bit larger than whats shown in the map.
Its not some vast impenetrable swamp that will eat all comers alive. The real issue is that its painfully featureless therefore easy to get turned around. Of course a compass will solve that.
Factor in that you are talking NJ, which is small and isnt particularly crawling with veteran explorers, and it can be a bit troublesome at times.
Vast in comparison to out west, or even PA, it is not though.
Actually quite beautiful, a unique ecosystem in the North east.
I would wager a guess that exposure is a bigger concern. Just walk east and eventually you will hit the Parkway.
Good one deflave. I saw that show. What is weird, last we saw the guy they were supposed to murder was running off into the pine barrens with a couple of bullets in him. we never saw what happened to him.
The mysterious pine barrens.
He climbed up a tree supposedly where his track ended and Paulie and Chrissy were too stupid to look up....The "interior decorator" outsmarted them.
A picture is worth a thousand words....
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Those look like mug shots???
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Tom Brown's book, The Tracker has some pretty vivid descriptions of the Pine Barrens. Not a place I would like to be without my OnX.
Its pretty big area, bigger than the actual park too, including private property thats contiguous.
http://www.newjerseyscenic.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/nj_pinebarrens_map.gifIts a little bit larger than whats shown in the map.
Its not some vast impenetrable swamp that will eat all comers alive. The real issue is that its painfully featureless therefore easy to get turned around. Of course a compass will solve that.
Factor in that you are talking NJ, which is small and isnt particularly crawling with veteran explorers, and it can be a bit troublesome at times.
Vast in comparison to out west, or even PA, it is not though.
Actually quite beautiful, a unique ecosystem in the North east.
I would wager a guess that exposure is a bigger concern. Just walk east and eventually you will hit the Parkway. [/quote]
I Turkey woodcock hunted and canoed in there a few times when I lived in S Jersey. Like you mentioned flat, thick with pines kind of hard to get bearings. Funny to see the sopranos episode
Can’t see someone dying in there unless they were dressed liked Pauli in a snow storm
Husband probably took the wife out and offed her, then hauled ass back in a panic and got the 4 wheeler stuck. Then took off somewhere.
Maybe...
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I Turkey woodcock hunted and canoed in there a few times when I lived in S Jersey. Like you mentioned flat, thick with pines kind of hard to get bearings. Funny to see the sopranos episode
We had a project in there where we had to traverse through the pines collecting a bunch of soil samples. Had a woman on the field crew from Idaho. She lasted one day and had to leave, couldn't deal with the closeness of the pines and got claustrophobic.
Looks like roads are less than 1 mile apart.
Those look like mug shots???
driver license pics I think
Found...approximately 200 yards from their home. What the actual fuggcck?
The search party was definitely thorough
Bill Bennett, a neighbor, told NBC10. “This area is not that large of an area to get lost.”
Looking at their pics, it seems like a methed up situation.
The bodies of a missing New Jersey couple were found Tuesday in a remote area near their home in the Pine Barrens — and authorities said they do not suspect foul play in their deaths.
Gary Parker, 67, and his wife Lorraine, 60 — who were last seen on Nov. 17 — were located by a police drone at about 1 p.m. in the densely wooded terrain in Warren Grove, according to the Stafford Township Police Department.
Autopsies will determine their causes of death, authorities said.
Parker and Lorraine were reported missing after driving into the protected wilderness reserve.
Did those boomers wander out into the woods and o.d. on da heron? Or exposure?
Bill Bennett, a neighbor, told NBC10. “This area is not that large of an area to get lost.”
Well there’s an expressway built through it so I would think not.
LOL
Found...approximately 200 yards from their home. What the actual fuggcck?
People in Wisconsin tie orange plastic to every third tree so they can manage the 150yd walk back to the road.
LOL
In Joisey, an alley is considered wilderness.
Point of interest, New Jersey wouldn’t let them film in the Pine Barrens, so they filmed it in Harriman State Park, 48,000 acres in NY maybe 30 highway miles from downtown Manhattan.
A whole lot prettier than the Pine Barrens. That’s why the scene ain’t flat and why it’s all hardwoods.
Point of interest, New Jersey wouldn’t let them film in the Pine Barrens, so they filmed it in Harriman State Park, 48,000 acres in NY maybe 30 highway miles from downtown Manhattan.
A whole lot prettier than the Pine Barrens. That’s why the scene ain’t flat and why it’s all hardwoods.
Interesting, they showed the GSP exits to make one believe. Harriman allows limited hunting and has/had some very nice deer residing here.
Found...approximately 200 yards from their home. What the actual fuggcck?
People in Wisconsin tie orange plastic to every third tree so they can manage the 150yd walk back to the road.
LOL
Gophergunner probably goes through an entire roll of orange plastic tape and 2 boxes of glow in the dark thumb tacks just to cross the ditch and sit on the edge of the trees...
New Jersey couple disappear after driving into Pine Barrens
By Conor Skelding and Dean Balsamini
November 27, 2021 5:06pm Updated
Gary and Lorraine Parker.
MORE ON:
A New Jersey couple mysteriously vanished after venturing into the Pine Barrens.
Gary Parker, 67, and his wife Lorraine, 60, of Warren Grove, N.J., drove into the protected wilderness reserve that covers more than a million acres — but didn’t return, according to reports.
Their ATV was later found by their wooded home with a shotgun still strapped to it.
The couple’s chilling disappearance has prompted large-scale searches and desperate pleas from family.
The Parkers were last seen Nov. 17, but a neighbor told cops she spoke with Lorraine sometime last weekend, according to the Asbury Park Press.
An official search began Tuesday. Their daughter, Lindsay Parker, posted that her parents were missing at 12:41 a.m. that morning. She wrote on Facebook later that day that her parents’ ATV was found near their home.
“My parents quad has been found along with my father’s shotgun which was strapped to it. Still no sign of either of my parents,” she wrote. “Their quad was found stuck in a field not far from their home that my dad has used for years to bait deer. Trail cam footage has nothing after footage captured last week.”
Police haven’t said when the couple went missing, according to Patch.com. Capt. James Vaughn, of the Stafford police, said he didn’t believe the couple went hunting, noting that in the rural community “many people […] have shotguns readily available,” according to the Sandpaper.
Vaughn also said that even if the couple was out in the elements for a few nights, he was “hopeful” they could survive because, “[T]hey are both avid outdoors people,” he told the outlet.
When the two-day manhunt — which included more than 100 searchers, police dogs, ATVs, drones, and air support — failed to find the couple, Stafford police on Wednesday turned the search over to its detectives and the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Pretty easy place to get lost in.
In Joisey, an alley is considered wilderness.
Probably more dangerous than a real wilderness too, what with those demonapes runing around.
I believe
this post explains WTF.